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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a comparatively or relatively small head; microcephalic or microcephalous.

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Examples

  • Take my small-headed conceptions about the beginnings of ecotourism.

    Richard Bangs: Naked in Brazil Richard Bangs 2010

  • His admittedly long-legged and small-headed temptresses (funnily enough, he often used his own daughter as his model) adorned calendars, magazine centerfolds and covers, and were often painted as "nose art" on war planes during World War II.

    Susan Kim: Eye Candy 2010

  • He vaguely recognized the small-headed kid sucking on an Orange Julius.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • He vaguely recognized the small-headed kid sucking on an Orange Julius.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • He vaguely recognized the small-headed kid sucking on an Orange Julius.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • The Frog Method holds true for quite a few small-headed animals, apparently.

    The Nervous Breakdown 2010

  • He vaguely recognized the small-headed kid sucking on an Orange Julius.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • Caricatures of stereotypes - the protruding lipped, near-buck toothed, slit eyed Asian female; the small-headed swimmer - and dysmorphic imaginative blobs...

    Wilfrid Wood « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog 2008

  • Straight-backed, small-headed, big-barrelled oxen, as dissimilar from any wild species as can well be imagined, contended for attention and praise with sheep of half-a-dozen different breeds and styes of bloated preposterous pigs, no more like a wild boar or sow than a city alderman is like an ourang-outang.

    Essays 2007

  • If I had to equate you as a person to a primitive life form, which I don't but will anyway, I would most likely assign you to one of the genus of bottom-dwelling aquatic organisms, such as the small-headed sole A. microcephala.

    Archive 2007-02-01 1 Dinosaur 2007

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